Ever been stuck at a party where you’ve made all the small talk, eaten all the snacks, and heard every story twice… except you literally can’t leave? You’re trapped forever, surrounded by the exact same conversations, while everyone else comes and goes. At first, it’s just boring… but as the […]
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Time perception, the block universe, consciousness, relativity, free will, reality and perception all collide in this video. We live as if time moves. The past feels fixed, the present feels special, and the future feels open. But some interpretations of modern physics — especially those rooted in Einstein’s theory of […]
We begin our coverage of Essentia Foundation’s 2023 work conference with host, Prof. Bernard Carr’s introduction to the conference. He highlights how fundamental mind is to physics, and then elaborates on the intimate relationship between mind and time, suggesting that only a better understanding of time will allow us to […]
The role of time in mainstream physics—as it arises in Newtonian theory, relativity theory, quantum theory, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics—is relatively well understood. However, there is a profound mystery concerning the passage of time associated with consciousness. Many physicists maintain that this passage is purely a feature of […]
This is day 2 of Essentia’s Time and Mind conference, our scientific discussion of the profound mystery of the passage of time and how it relates to consciousness. Many physicists maintain that the passage of time is purely a feature of mind, beyond physics itself, while others argue that it […]
Hans Busstra sat down with Bernard Carr and Bernardo Kastrup to discuss all presentations given at our ‘Time and Mind’ conference and elaborate further on their own ideas. For instance, both Carr and Kastrup agree that, if you take an idealist perspective, you need multiple time dimensions to account for […]
